Daily Tasks

Thursday, April 23

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Congratulations on making it to the end of this most challenging semester. Today we will briefly discuss any remaining insights or questions related to the class. I will also… More

Tues, April 21

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

As things wind down, we will spend a few minutes reflecting on our experiences with Pinterest. To get started, we will watch this video:

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Thursday, April 16

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today we will go over some additional steps related to composing your portfolios. I will guide us as we learn more about

Tuesday, April 14

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today, we will review some of the portfolio videos that were assigned in last class's recap.

Once we have a… More

Thursday, April 9

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today, we will spend a few minutes looking over steps involved in composing your course portfolios. When ready, you will use the… More

Tues, April 7

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

We will spend some time talking about our readings. We will think about the idea of a data identity and the ways that… More

Thursday, April 2

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today, we will review our class portfolio assignment. I will discuss the expectations and answer any questions.

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Tues, March 31

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today, we will spend a few minutes discussing our reading. For this we will use a combination of zoom chat and video… More

Thursday 3-26

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today is a working day for our podcast projects. On zoom today, I will walk people through the steps for exporting the draft of the audio essays. The basics are:

Tuesday, March 24

Zoom link for 9:30: https://unc.zoom.us/j/962881918

Zoom link for office hours: https://unc.zoom.us/j/4288734460

Today, we will start with some time devoted to getting acclimated to interacting remotely.

As we work, you may want start by going over these ideas for optimizing … More

Thursday 3-5

Today we will begin working on our individual podcasts. We will start by reviewing the assignment

As we work, you will want access to the recorded files from our class performances:

Accessibility, Digital Divides, and DisabilitiesMore

Tuesday, March 2

Today we will continue our work with podcasts. Here are some mp3 files of our podcasts from last class:

Accessibility, Digital Divides, and Disabilities

Surveillance, AI, Algorithms

In… More

Thursday Feb 27

Today we will hear the first two of our podcast performances:

Sabrina, Alex, Emma, Nataly will discuss Accessibility, Digital Divides, and Disabilities

and

Danny, Toby, Kayla, Mason will discuss Surveillance, AI, and Algorithms

Tuesday, Feb 25

Today, we will meet in the study rooms in the undergraduate library where you can practice your podcast performances. The logistics of the next three class periods are below:

Accessibility, Digital Divides, and Disabilities: Sabrina, Alex, More

Thursday Feb 20

Today, we will conduct a brief exercise to get a feel for delivering our podcasts. I will guide us through the steps

Next, we will quickly listen to some samples:

Tuesday, Feb 18

Today, we will begin with a quick look at our reading. We might think about:

  • Tensions between "hack versus yak"
  • Questions of concurrence versus causality
  • How "modular" are current digital spaces?
  • Unix rules and philosophy.

We will then touch base about… More

Thursday Feb 13

Today, we will conduct some studio feedback of our videos in progress. I will guide us through the activities.

We will also go over the submission process for our video drafts. You will need either a YouTube or Vimeo account. YouTube will already have you in the system if you use google. Vimeo steers you toward paying on their sign up page, but if you select Vimeo Basic, it is free.… More

Tuesday, Feb 11

Today we will quickly look over our schedule to get a sense of our trajectory.

We will then discuss our readings.

We will also explore some aspects of fair use. We will use the US Copyright Office guidelines… More

Thursday Feb 6

Today, we will try again to have a chat about our reading from Tuesday. Here are a couple of prompts we will use:

  • What about the inside/outside dichotomy for writing?
  • What are the new genres and how do they relate to "writing?"
  • What does the rise of the novel include that is social? How related to rise of… More
Tuesday, Feb 4

Today we will start by discussing our reading. For this discussion, we will use a chat room on our class Sakai site. Log in to our class Sakai, site, select the Chat Room, and then the chat for Tuesday, Feb 4.

Here are some prompts related to our readings:

Yancey

What about the inside/outside dichotomy for… More

Thursday, 1-30

Today, we will begin by reviewing our next assignment.

Once we have a clear sense of the assignment, we will move on to a peer review activity.

You can conduct this activity in class. Once you have completed the activity, you can begin working on your plans for the… More

Tuesday, Jan 28

Today, we will start by reviewing the expectations and procedure for submitting your DH Report drafts. Please be sure to have the draft of your report posted before class on Thursday. These are short reports, so get your draft to a point of closure so we can start to work on the next stages. When ready, use this link to upload a doc… More

Thursday, Jan 23

Today, we will start with some performative composing that brings together humans and machines. In our reading from Tuesday, Drucker suggested that the sciences are declarative and the humanities are perfomative. Let's conduct an exercise to think about how often that is the case. Follow these steps:

First, if you haven't already done so,… More

Tuesday, Jan 21

Today we will start by discussing our readings. Here are some prompts we can think through:

Drucker

  • What can be gained by debating the R-evolution question?
  • How true is it that our tools are not humanistic? If we accept this as true, what follows?
  • How much humanities works is… More
Thursday, 1-16

Today, we will start by going over our DH project ideas.

Next, we will spend the bulk of the class working in groups on our a two-week sprint assignment linked to our reports.

If you complete the group task, you can begin working on the first milestone that you… More

Tuesday Jan 14

Today, we will start by talking about our readings: Here are some items we can take up:

From the History of Humanities Computing

  • What is left out of the story?More
Thursday, 1-9

Before class on Tuesday, create your account on our site with this link:

http://altscholarship.com/dighum/user/register

Also, complete our first reading assignment